Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895 - 1972), regarded as 'le maître' among couturiers. "Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians

Vibrant silks, flowing satins, rich woollen damasks, baroque floral motifs, gold and silver brocade ... 18th-century fashions are a feast for the eye. This exhibition gives a chance to admire a number

Saturday 23 November 2024 | 15.00 - 16.00 Ivan Day has recreated dessert tables from many different centuries in period houses and museums across the UK, North America and Europe. He will illustrate...

In spring 2006, the period rooms at the Gemeentemuseum will be alive with birds: one of the most popular artistic subjects from the natural world. Birds of prey, decoys, songbirds, aviary birds and

The De Stijl movement was launched in Leiden exactly one hundred years ago. The Netherlands is poised to mark the centenary in 2017 with a year-long programme of events under the title Mondrian to...

Brightly-coloured, atmospheric, wild, pleasant, flat, hilly, figurative, abstract, two and three dimensional: landscapes take all kinds of forms in modern art. From works packed with drama and emotion

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From Breitner to Egon Schiele and from Charley Toorop to Francis Bacon. This exhibition features a selection of top works from the collection of the Gemeentemuseum. Some of them, like Odilon Redon's L